Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ARCTIC! (334 pp.)-Jeanneffe Mirsky-Knopf...
Dictator Juan Domingo Perón of Argentina explained why he had committed his country to war on the U.S. side, if war should ever come. "We are in the Antarctic Circle, Russia is in the Arctic Circle, and the U.S. is in the middle," said he, adding easily,"with the atomic bomb." He observed: "The stronger always wins...
...biggest oversnow airborne maneuver in Army history, the climax of "Exercise Snowdrop," latest in the Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
From the U.S.S.R., a year ago, came icy blasts that plunged all Europe into the misery of one of the worst winters it had known in years. This time the story was different. All winter long, while arctic gusts set the U.S. ashivering, strong west winds from the warm Atlantic bathed Europe in welcome balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from...
...Labrador, a team of dog paratroopers made a practice jump on orders of U.S. Colonel Paul A. Zartman, Goose Bay airbase commandant. Zartman's idea: harnessed to a dogsled (which can also be parachuted), dogs can haul human chutists on difficult Arctic rescue missions. The tests proved that the dogs knew what to do with a grounded chute. Crowed an airman: "Instinctively, the dogs run to the chute...